There is currently a plan to ditch the Electoral College – giving the Presidency to whoever wins the popular vote – and 12 states have already signed on.
“This is disempowering to rural America and empowering to urban America,” states Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt, and it amounts to a “hack” of the Constitution by people who don’t believe in the Electoral College.
Stirewalt also states that without the Electoral College we would have had a whole different trajectory of presidents. With a popular vote presidential candidates would ignore rural areas and focus only on urban centers. The “plan is to subvert the will of the Constitution and the founders.”
“This is disempowering to rural America and empowering to urban America,” he concludes, and it amounts to a “hack” of the Constitution by people who don’t believe in the Electoral College.
Nearly a dozen states have quietly signed onto a plan to effectively ditch the Electoral College and instead, award the White House to the candidate that wins the popular vote.
The National Popular Vote agreement would take effect if states that represent 270 electoral votes all commit. New York has most recently joined the efforts, bringing the number of states to 10 plus the District of Columbia. Altogether, they represent 165 electoral votes.
Without the Electoral College, FoxNews.com digital politics editor Chris Stirewalt said we would have had a whole different trajectory of presidents. If presidents are selected through the popular vote, he said that campaigns will focus on maximizing turnout in urban centers. He said the “plan is to subvert the will of the Constitution and the founders.”
“This is disempowering to rural America and empowering to urban America,” he said, explaining that it amounts to a “hack” of the Constitution by people who don’t believe in the Electoral College.
Since there is not enough support in Congress to change the Constitution and officially end the Electoral College, this plan would allow popular vote advocates to work around it.
Stirewalt pointed out that this plan is part of a larger trend on the part of “frustrated” liberals who haven’t been able to bring about the changes they want.
“They are simply taking them. They are simply doing it and if people dissent and if people complain and if the stodgy, old Constitution gets in the way, if the fussy old Whigs in the Electoral College complain about it, too bad. Because they’re gonna hack the code and they’re gonna find a way to get what they want,” he said.
So can this actually happen?
Stirewalt believes there will be significant pushback once people across the United States realize the “deadly gravity of what is being proposed” and if the states move closer to 270.
Nearly a dozen states have quietly signed onto a plan to effectively ditch the Electoral College and instead, award the White House to the candidate that wins the popular vote.
The National Popular Vote agreement would take effect if states that represent 270 electoral votes all commit. New York has most recently joined the efforts, bringing the number of states to 10 plus the District of Columbia. Altogether, they represent 165 electoral votes.
Without the Electoral College, FoxNews.com digital politics editor Chris Stirewalt said we would have had a whole different trajectory of presidents. If presidents are selected through the popular vote, he said that campaigns will focus on maximizing turnout in urban centers. He said the “plan is to subvert the will of the Constitution and the founders.”
“This is disempowering to rural America and empowering to urban America,” he said, explaining that it amounts to a “hack” of the Constitution by people who don’t believe in the Electoral College.
Since there is not enough support in Congress to change the Constitution and officially end the Electoral College, this plan would allow popular vote advocates to work around it.
Stirewalt pointed out that this plan is part of a larger trend on the part of “frustrated” liberals who haven’t been able to bring about the changes they want.
“They are simply taking them. They are simply doing it and if people dissent and if people complain and if the stodgy, old Constitution gets in the way, if the fussy old Whigs in the Electoral College complain about it, too bad. Because they’re gonna hack the code and they’re gonna find a way to get what they want,” he said.
So can this actually happen?
Stirewalt believes there will be significant pushback once people across the United States realize the “deadly gravity of what is being proposed” and if the states move closer to 270.
Screw fox news! They couldn’t get a story correct if it were happening before their very eyes! And screw the electoral college!!
Gee, Barry, 12 states behind you and 45 left to go !!
Brad Crow: you are ignorant to the way our country is constructed. Supposed to be a system where states are like independent countries. The states are supposed to elect the POTUS, not the people in those states. The states and EACH INDIVIDUAL are supposed to be more powerful than the fed.
SAVE AMERICA,THE TRATOR OBAMA needs to be ARRESTED right now! “SCREW OBAMA”,“SCREW HILLARY CLINTON!”. The Butchers of Benghazi and the BUTCHER of the CONSTITUTION should be in Jail !!!!
SHOULD BE BUT ARENT,,,,,,LAZY STUPID PEOPLE THATS WHY,,,,DO NOTHING AMERICA
Time to Bring the War on.
I do not want the citizens of a half dozen states deciding who our President is going to be
Our old USA has been kidnapped, more proof.
They WILL STEAL the next election. COUNT ON IT!!
Barrack Obama has the Bureau of Land Management ready to murder innocent citizens of the Untied States.
The United States created, supported, and funded the violence in the Ukraine.
End our stupid War on Terror.
Fire Barrack Obama, Joe Biden, Eric Holder, John Kerry, and every one of Obama’s Appointees.
With great power comes great responsiblity.
Each Senator, each Representative, and every member of Obama’s Administration should be fired today for abusing thier authourity and for violating their Oath of Office.
The IRS was used to harrass and intimidate patriots and conservatives.
The IRS and the Bureau of Land Management should be shut down, today.
The head of every Federal Agency in the United States should be fired and repalaced, today.
The Sanctions against Russia should be ended.
The United States CIA is the largest Drug Cartel in the world and it is wrong that the United States and NATO are at war across Africa and Asia based on the lies of the CIA.
The NSA and the CIA have no credibiliity, like the Media in the United States.
Ditto!!!